Information about searching
The search-functionality in the inAudio web-interface can do a bit more than you might think at first...
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When using the inAudio search-interface you might only have done simple searches such as
Michael Jackson
or
Frontline Assembly
However, there is a bit more you can do when searching from the inAudio interface.
To begin with, searching like this:
Michael Jackson
will tell the inAudio-interface to perform a "fuzzy" search.
In short what a "fuzzy" search means is that it ignores some characters that might make searching more difficult, for example it strips away spaces, _ - ! ? . and other similar characters.
This means that searching for Enya would also return hits for Coen Yahmal
(something I just made up but you get the idea).
If you get odd results due to this or if you know exacly what you are looking for, you can therefore use quotes("") to tell the inAudio search-engine that you wish to perform an exact search.
Searching for "enya" will therefore only give you results where enya is included in the filename.
Please note that this however still would give you hits on for example kenya.
You can use a minus-sign to tell inAudio to exclude any items that contains the specified word after the minus-sign from the search.
So searching for:
"Michael Jackson" -"Billie Jean"
will give you all songs by Michael Jackson that exists in the database except Billie Jean.
And finally:
OR is used to use OR as an operator as opposed to the default AND- operator.
By default when you do a query like this: criteria1 criteria2 inAudio searches for both these criterias in the same filename. To override this, use the OR operator:
criteria1 OR criteria2.
You must put the OR-operator in uppercase since it must still be possible to search for files containting or in the filename.
Example:
criteria1 or criteria2
will search for filenames that contains "criteria1" AND "or" AND "criteria2"
criteria1 OR criteria2
will search for files that contains "criteria1" OR "criteria2"
Let's look at yet another example:
"Michael Jackson" OR "Front 242"
will give you all files from any of these 2 artists.
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